mesa

See also: Mesa and mésá

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: [māʹsə], IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges

   A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, The New York Times:

     Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

Related terms

• potrero
• butte
• tuya

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: ylätasanko, pöytävuori
• German: Tafelberg (de) m
• Hebrew: הַר שֻׁלְחָן (he) m (har shulrán)
• Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
• Italian: altopiano (it) m

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Norwegian: platå n
• Russian: столовая гора f (stolovája gorá)
• Spanish: mesa (es)
• Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Anagrams

• ASME
• mase
• same
• seam

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.sa]

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

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Chamicuro

Etymology

From Spanish mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization

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Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

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Latvian

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

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Portuguese

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mesa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa (“table”). Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈme.zɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.za/, /ˈme.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table (item of furniture)

   José, põe a mesa, por favor.

   José, please set the table.

2. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

3. (geography) mesa
4. board (a committee)

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: nameeja
• Kaingang: mẽja
• Kituba: mesa
• Lingala: mésá
• Malay: meja
  • Indonesian: meja

• Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
• Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• Swahili: meza
• Tamil: மேசை (mēcai)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme̞sa/

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. mesa

Related terms

• mesero

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛsa]

Noun

mesa

1. table

Synonyms

• la mesa: often used interchangeably with mesa